Quotes About Strategy

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.